Music video: Mariah Carey featuring Nicki Minaj - Up out my face

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She is never going to learn is she? The whole pandering to the male fantasy, being dressed as a nurse, a Barbie: it's old. And it's making her look old. She looked like a man in drag in this video. She needs to save this for the chicks who can pull it off without it looking forced and over cooked.

I loved the playfulness of this video. Mariah and Nicki looked like they had a lot fun filming this together. What I always like about when Mariah has features on her song, is that the featuring artist(s) gets as much air time in the music video as she does. Unlike say, Beyoncé (you know what collabo and video of her's I'm on about). But as fun as the video was, it looked cheap. The lyrics popping up on the screen looked like somebody hard subbed them...badly! Couldn't Nick Cannon have picked a better font to have used!? Damn. I think this is possibly one of Mariah's best videos from her Memoirs of an imperfect angel run. Her previous videos set the bar so low, that we had to get at least one half decent video at some point.

Mariah falling out of the doll packaging at the 1:35 mark had me laughing, because that shit looked real. If it wasn't, then Damn! Maybe home girl can act after all - because that fall did look genuine. I'm glad the "Up out my face (Reprise)" got a look in, because the beat on it knocks harder than that of the main song. When the album dropped, everybody was up in arms about why it wasn't made part of the main song or made longer. It really is such a hot switch to the main song.

"Up out my face" is one of my favourite songs on Memoirs of an imperfect angel. I'm pissed Mariah didn't release it sooner. I didn't care much for Nicki Minaj being put on a remix to begin with. But upon watching the music video and listening to the song a few more times, I really like her on it. Nicki's feature is what helps make this video too. Because had Mariah shot this shit on her own, it would have been super boring. Having Nicki to play off of helped make it more tolerable.

Check it out: Memoirs of an imperfect angel album review